I did when a youngster.
The neighbor and his brother ran the concessions at the fairgrounds. They would have races several times during the summer. It was mostly neighborhood kids that did the hawking.I made some pretty good money and got to see most of the races. We also did the county fair.
That was nearly 35years ago.
Today my daughter (she is 12)Hawks popcorn for her 4H club at the demo derby.She is the only one who actually yells. I’ve had people tell me that they have seen people come clear across the grandstand to buy from her.
A real chip of the old block I guess.
This must be take pluto back to high school day.
I once sold ice cream from a little motorized cart, complete with a bell and everything. To be more accurate, I once drove a cart full of ice cream bars and popsicles around, while ringing a bell. I never actually sold anything. Since I was working on a strictly comission basis it was not very lucrative, but I lasted a whole week. The primary reason for not selling anything was that the owners had set the prices exorbitantly high. Even if I discounted my comission they were still absurd prices. My last day I worked a parade downtown. Huge crowds. Hot day. Can’t miss. The owners recognized their advantage: they raised the prices even more!! Special parade rates! Lots of inquiries but no sales. I decided to “seek other opportunities”.
It was the poorest paying job I ever had but I guess it has some appeal. My kids think it’s cool that I was an ice cream man. (“What does your dad do?” “Oh, something dull and boring but he used to be an ice cream man!”)
I guess it was 9th or 10th grade. I sold hot dogs in the stands during one season. USFL–Memphis Showboats.
I sold them at the movie theater, during highschool.
I did everything but run the projector.
Didn’t need to shout though. Just ask “Do you want the Gigantipop for 59 cents more?”
Yep, hawked concessions at a movie theater when I was in high school. What’s worse, for about 3 months I actually popped the corn. Not every theater does this - but at the one I worked we had this huge industrial sized popper that made garbage bag sized amounts at one time. As you can imagine the work was hot and dangerous. I got burned badly a lot. I went home everyday and spent about an hour in the shower just trying to get that damned smell off me. To most people the smell of hot popcorn is pleasant, as it was to me when I first started doing it. After awhile it (like almost anything if you smell it 6 hours a day) got very repulsive. To this day I do not eat popcorn at all. I also still do not like the smell, yuck.
- NM